Never!

Ooo this hurts deep. I was paying hosting and domain, but now just domain since the site needed a refresh and one day I will get around to it…

Mate, I went full slog and got a vps. Now each site is a virtual host. I did have individual landers in each host, but now they just redirect to my main site.
Which is a lander 🤣

My domain is just used so I can reverse-proxy my homelab for people who don't know anything about vpn, etc.

Yeah, I use it for personal link sharing for Immich. Sharing photos is a breeze.
I got a domain that I only use for email right now but I'd love to set something like this up. Any recommendations on tutorials?
- Get started with a Linux server and then I'd go with something like Nextcloud in a Docker container. Then do reverse proxy, nginx on the host is very easy. You can get and update SSL certs with certbot (Let's Encrypt).

Gym memberships: "Hold my beer."

$12 is 2018 prices

I just renewed my .com for USD $11.08 and that's not even the cheapest registrar. Some companies will absolutely rip you off on renewals though.
- My .xyz domain is $13 on renewal, where should I move to attain lower prices?
Well, maybe OP has been holding on to it for quite few years by now.
- Just got this in my email today:
I still hold a .de domain for 12€/year

Just renewed and I'm upset as well

Just set up auto renew and be sad when you are charged, then forget about it in a few days.

my dream of hosting a few services mostly for personal use is alive and kicking tyvm

My dream of pressing a red button with pay $12 on it will never be fulfilled 😥

question, i bought domains a few times, and the first year is super cheap, then the second year they jack up the prices. no, I'm not paying 140$ for a domain I only use for my kids Minecraft server.

that's why you always look at renewal prices and never first year prices. tld-list.com has a good comparison.
- A lot of the big ones like to jack the prices up every year. Just dropped Namecheap because my domain tripled in price over 3 years
- thanks, that's what i need to know
Thats why I bought a dirt cheap domain that is entirely numbers, and it renews for 10 dollars every 10 years.
I just need to remember the digits.
<string of digits>
.xyz
- So... you reinvented ip addresses.
- Those are class 1.111B domains. I actually buy them a little cheaper, but have to do it one year at a time. It's only 6-9 digits though, not any string of digits
- Can you recommend a good site to find/check these prices? No problem if not, I'm utterly clueless and entirely curious lol.
- my domains were also dirty cheap. they jacked up the prices afterwards because they can
Make sure you're buying .com or another common standard TLD and not some weird TLD with super high prices.
And check the renewal price, if your registrar doesn't make it very clear then go somewhere else.
I have a .us domain, I don't even remember what I pay, I only do it every 6 years, it's so cheap...
you must have a high traffic TLD like a .ai or .sucks or something.
- one was .eu, another .uk
  don't remember the rest

I wish I could keep my dreams alive for $12.

yeah a box of good reeds costs more than that

I'm in this meme, and I don't like it.

Me too. My nextcloud has been dead for years at this point.

I have one that I use for services that other people need to get to. Otherwise I just remember the IP.

No https?
- I've heard that Let's Encrypt recently started issuing certificates for IP addresses. I'm unable to find the article at the moment though.
- Well the domain helps with that for sure, especially for things like let’s encrypt. But my other stuff is running through Tailscale/headscale so https isn’t really necessary.

I mean. It does make me feel better knowing I'm not actually alone.

Right? On one hand I feel personally attacked, but on the other hand “oh thank god it’s not just me”.
But next year I swear I’ll have the time and energy to actually build all those cool ideas behind the domains! I hope….

Guys one day, my nixos config WILL hold both my pc and home server configuration, just gotta block out 3 months to get it bootable

Wow this was me yesterday. Opened Namecheap and saw the 10 domains I have sitting there doing nothing.

I got a pretty great one for cheap that I want to migrate my Navidrome service to. I don't mind the $12 renewal; I just need to figure out how to host 1TB of music on the cloud for cheap.

'the cloud' is just someone else's computer. The cheapest way is always going to be to use your own hardware. Get into homelabbing :D
- Yes I am aware that I am paying to use someone else's hardware. I already self-hosted lots of stuff on my own hardware, renting a server has other benefits that my own hardware doesn't, mainly guaranteed uptime.
- In a lot of cases it's cheap and fun, but it can also be time consuming and easy to mess up. Hosting your own mail server for example is probably not worth it for most people.
Define "cheap".
https://bdon.github.io/cng-storage-guide/
Note that this isn't a one-to-one guide.
Some have a minimum storage amount but with 12 TB you're fine.
I think cloudflare may be the most cost effective since they don't have egress costs like AWS.
- Thanks for the guide. S3 buckets are the way to go and I already have a few Linode/Akami servers I keep for playing around with. I'm just a little worried about Navidrome hammering the server because I messed something up then getting a $1000 bandwidth charge.

Lol I renew in 5 year increments

admit your dream is dead
pay $60

I am using my domain. Best 10€ ever spent (maybe after Terraria). For just 10€ I get a .org domain name and all the DNS records I want, and I get pampered by cloudflare all the time...

"Oh, you want a distributed reverse proxy? You want a dislocated cache? You won't TLS without getting a certificate? Block AI on the proxy? Even more stuff? Well guess what, we already make a bajillion dollars from big tech, so you the little guy can have all of that included in your 10€"

Yeah this is why I don’t get the selfhosting communities dislike of cloudflare. Most of the free stuff they give you, you can’t hope to self host. And the stuff you can, you are still free to. There’s the chance they turn on us in the future, but for now they seem pretty reliable.
Now if it’s a dislike of centralization to a single company? I can understand that.
- Yeah this is why I don’t get the selfhosting communities dislike of cloudflare.
  There’s the chance they turn on us in the future, but for now they seem pretty reliable. Now if it’s a dislike of centralization to a single company? I can understand that.
  I think that's exactly what people are concerned about. Any company that turns into a monopoly should be looked at with suspicion.
- We dislike it because nobody needs it. Nobody here is getting DDoS'd to any extend that needs external protection.
  I'm talking anecdotally but it seems to me that all the people who ride-or-die Cloudflare are also self-hosters who aren't very knowledgeable about self-hosting concepts and just heard that cloudflare protects against all these imaginary problems because they sure do sound scary!
- The problem with cloudflare is when everyone relies on them, then if something happens to them, they take the whole internet offline... its much like when aws has issues, half the internet just stops working. It undermines the concept that the internet is a federation.
- Well, I don't use most of their stuff because I mostly run self hosted stuff that either don't need their proxy stuff or violate their content policies (you can't serve movies/video over their proxy, which is reasonable). But if I wanted to I already have all of that at my disposal, without any extra money.

I will never let go of bascul.in, that's for sure.

At least put all three basculin on it!

I have a domain I keep because it's short, but my main one is more memorable. I just don't want to lose the short one, I'm sure I'll find a use for it one day.

That might be good for shortlinking

How very dare you.

I finally let mine go last week. RIP 🪦

My condolences

I can't be the only one that collects cheap domains for fun.

X5

reading these comments makes me quite please about my $6 renewal .stream domain lol

Options have value.

Options expire.

🤷

Oh sweet summer child. Back in the 1999 and 2000 Network Solutions was the only registrar (for North American TLDs) and it cost $35/year (and if memory serves you had to buy it initially for 2 years, and after that you could renew it for 1 year at a time). $35 in the year 2000 is worth $65.66 today.

Yep. It wasn't cheap or easy back when they had the monopoly.
That's back when ISP's offered personal webpage hosting as part of your service. I setup my first webpage on my dialup ISP's server. Family photos and such before the social media things got going.
I for many years after that for large file transfers. Just set up a landing index page and a folder for the file in FTP to activate it. Then share the http address to file.